So, just which “senior congressional Democrats” might this be?
(Regarding another B*sh junta's attempt to retcon legality onto one of their massively unconstitutional domestic espionage programs):
...Aides to senior congressional Democrats and Republicans say they recognize the threat and are willing to pass legislation to address it before Congress adjourns for a month next weekend...
Ahh, the lovely vague threat of congressional rollover. Now, it's perfectly possible that the Stupid Party caucus is itching for another chance to buckle under to the unreasonable demands of Mr 25% popularity [the House leadership is still claiming that even thinking about impeachment will get in the way of their agenda. You'd think they'd realize that this agenda will not go anywhere if the Evil Party can continue to freely place traitors and saboteurs within the bureaucratic ranks of the US government, but that is assuming -- against all evidence -- that the Stupid Party caucus is not actually stupid,] but you'd think that the chance of humiliating such a Democrat would be too tempting to pass up (either by the reporters at Josh Marshall Inc [the only remaining liberal news organization on the Mount Doom side of the Beltway] or by an Evil Party mole who wanted to see a little more egg on the face of the Stupid Party caucus.)
No, no, it smells like a memo from Mount Doom that's been carefully scrubbed of fingerprints and plopped down on the AP newswire to panic the Stupid Party into doing another stupid thing.